I’ll be honest I’m a little confused by this compilation album. It’s a collection of songs from Mark’s 5 albums on the Home Sweet Home label. I am confused because generally one doesn’t put out a compilation album in the same year as one releases one of the albums featured. I am wondering if this album was a legal matter as it was released as he was completed his deal with Home Sweet Home and actually moved on to create his own record label. Another thing that confuses me is why include “Acoustic” in the title. It’s not an acoustic album it’s just regular cuts from his albums. Personally I think it was a little disingenuous to use the word acoustic in the title as it could have fooled people into thinking they were getting new acoustic versions of these songs. The album does feature one new track, “Family Name”, which is a new song written by Bill Batstone and is really good but it’s inclusion on the album makes me even a little more suspect to the whole thing. Anyway all that aside I am positive this had nothing to do with Mark and we have a great compilation album here.
Tracklist
1 – Family Name – 4:06
2 – Eye Of The Storm – 3:00
3 – Castaway – 3:16
4 – In The Gaze Of The Spotlight’s Eye – 3:57
5 – Call Me The Fool – 3:12
6 – To See Your Face – 3:35
7 – I’m Crying Again – 3:29
8 – Some Folks’ World – 4:35
9 – Can’t See Light – 4:58
10 – True Confessions – 3:30
11 – Well-Worn Pages – 2:44
12 – In Spite Of Himself – 3:09
